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I found this piece incredibly interesting, and though the subject matter was depressing, it was very beautifully written. It really made me think about the extreme poverty that was the norm during this era. Her descriptions of the single woman who isolates herself and virtually disappears made me wonder how many women died of starvation during this period. I also found her statements at the end fascinating: "It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of ... being a slave without the security of a slave" (p 149). Times were bad enough that the author was willing to imply that being a slave would have been better than being a free woman during the great depression. - Sarah H. | I found this piece incredibly interesting, and though the subject matter was depressing, it was very beautifully written. It really made me think about the extreme poverty that was the norm during this era. Her descriptions of the single woman who isolates herself and virtually disappears made me wonder how many women died of starvation during this period. I also found her statements at the end fascinating: "It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of ... being a slave without the security of a slave" (p 149). Times were bad enough that the author was willing to imply that being a slave would have been better than being a free woman during the great depression. - Sarah H. | ||
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| + | I found this reading particularly striking only because it was a description of women form the middle class rather than the usual upper or lower class descriptions. i feel that usually we describe both ends of the spectrums, however the middle class is usually ignored. I also felt that the images that were very well conveyed through the writing. --Julie Robert | ||
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| + | This article reminds me a lot of the movies I've seen that were made from 1930-1934. The representation of women really parallel what Lesueur is saying. Even though the the Production Code (morality censorship rules for movies) was written in 1930, many movies about immoral woman and other content continued to get made during the hardest years of the Depression, and it was fairly accurate too. Marlene Dietrich plays a woman in Blonde Venus that is so multifaceted, she is a single mother, she is desperate and on the brink of starvation, but she is also a "fallen woman", someone who has turned to the company of men (glamorously and not so glamorously) in order to make a little money for her baby. This was what I remembered when the unemployed women looked on, un-phased by the poor crazed girl. ~~jackie Reed | ||
== Ann Marie Low's "The Dust Bowl" == | == Ann Marie Low's "The Dust Bowl" == | ||
